SSD upgrades and USB3 caddies

kwikbreaks

This isn't a question just a comment on my experiernces.

I've just finished upgrading two netbooks a laptop and a SFF PC to SSDs. The upgrades are the best value for money ones I've ever done and I can thoroughly recommend SSDs. As I don't keep large volumes of stuff on the machines themselves I was able to use pretty small SSDs and they are cheap now - in my case I had one 64GB drive already but I bought another for £30 a 128GB one cost ~ £40 and a 160GB one £50.

Now that left me with 3 2.5 hdds and 1 3.5 one. I use 3.5 drives bare in a plug in caddy but bought 3 caddies off eBay for the 2.5 drives. They were unreliable / didn't work on USB3 so they went back for a refund. I bought 3 more of a different type and it was the same story so hey are on their way back. There are umpteen sellers of both types and they simply don't work.

In the meantime I've put one of the 2.5 drives in the SFF PC for the higher volume activity which doen't need high speeds as that will hopefully extent the life of the SSD. Another drive has started showing surface defects - not sure why but probably due to my sausage fingers - I'll be junking that one. I've ordered one slightly dearer caddy with a name I've at least seen before - Sumvision and am crossing my fingers

Gloomendoom

Where did you get the 160gb SSD for £50? I have a desktop that needs a kick up the bum.

kwikbreaks

Here http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271631871424

Looks like they've all gone now but http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brand-new-160GB-2-5-SSD-SATA-Hard-drive-HP-No-688768-001-/181582636287 is £52.99 or best offer

For any disk drive I'd avoid refurbs or low feedback eBay sellers.

spud17

I recently set up a couple of new Dell laptops that each had a usb 3.0 socket.
I took the opportunity to test my Kingston 16GB flash drive.
Using Crystal Disk, I was impressed with
Read 191.8 MB/s
Write 47.58 MB/s

2006 Inspiron 6400 with a 64 GB Transcend (£34 new) running Win 10, gives
Read 125MB/s and Write 67.55 MB/s, so a great speed boost.

Gloomendoom

I have a Dell 6400 as my backup machine. Now that I use cloud storage, I'm tempted to stick an SSD in it.

Oblivion

I used these Inateck 2.5" SATA optimised-for-SSD caddies when I exchanged my laptop hard drives for 500GB SSDs. Popped the SSD in the caddy first and used the software supplied with the Samsung SSDs to clone the disc. Then just swapped them over and I've left the old drives in the caddies to use for making backups.


http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00FCLG65U/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1

boatman

What do you have to do to the new SSD with regard to formatting etc so your pc sees it and you can put a cloned image of your current set up on to it?